Joy Division's Equipment
Indiearchivist has compiled a set of equipment that frequently used by Joy Division on stages or in their recording sessions. Along with it we can see that Joy Division performed a very unique act in a show.
The instrument sets are rather odd and rare (a melodica, for instance), probably it's their style to make a bizzare sounds that were a trademark to their genius songs.
The classic Joy Division line-up has always been Ian Curtis on vocals, Peter Hook on bass, Steve Morris on drums and Bernard Sumner on guitar. What a lot of people do not know is that JD used to experiment with swapping of instruments and sometimes different line-ups.
Sometimes this experimentation and instrument swapping was more or less forced upon them. For example, when somebody hurt their hand during a "joke" fight with empty bottles just as the band were to go onstage. Or, with Curtis deteriorating health and more and more frequent epileptic seizures, he would sometimes not be well enough to perform, and somebody else would have to take care of his guitar duties (and sometimes even singing! read on...)
The instrument sets are rather odd and rare (a melodica, for instance), probably it's their style to make a bizzare sounds that were a trademark to their genius songs.
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